OK, I'll take a crack at this too since I consider myself a small 'a' audiophile as well. A long time ago I wondered why hi-fi shops would fire up speakers with the best and biggest amp in the room. So one day a sales guy demo'd for me two beefy power amps - a Citation and I think a Crown amp. It was subtle, but I did hear a difference.
Since then I've been able to hear differences sometimes but not always with amplifiers. The differences can be readily apparent, they can be subtle or they can be nonexistent to my ears. Speakers are another matter entirely. Rarely do two sound the same. Listening to the stock SB3 by itsel or into my AVR's DAC I hear subtle differences. I could probably identify correctly most of the time whether the source has been changed or not. However, I'm sure that identifying which source is playing correctly 10 times out of 10 is beyond me. Maybe if I have longer term exposure to both it would become possible. Part of the OP's issue may be that he just hooked one psu up that day and didn't live with both for an extended time. Also, identifying which source might be harder to do than identifying whether or not it is the same as the previous source. -- wdrazek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wdrazek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8997 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31758 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
